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Continuing their run of summer 2015 concert performances, Pet Shop Boys will bring the Electric tour to Sweden’s Way Out West festival on August 14th. Also announced for the three-day music event in Slottsskogen, Göteborg, are Patti Smith, Beck, Ellie Goulding, Years & Years and Florence + The Machine, with more to be announced. Tickets for Way Out West can be purchased from the link listed below.

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A new compilation of the late Frankie Knuckles' music and remixes will be released later this month and will include his previously unavailable Royal Piano Version of "Left to my own devices". The double-CD will be released on April 26th on Defected Records with profits going to the Frankie Knuckles Fund/Elton John AIDS Foundation. The full track-listing can be found at the link below.

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On this day

1990: Electronic's 'Getting Away with It,' co-written by Neil and with him on background vocals, debuts on the U.S. singles chart. This same afternoon, an ill Derek Jarman is visited at home by Neil and several other friends. Jarman records in his diary, 'We had a wild half an hour with Neil at his best.' Neil notes that he and Chris are about to head off to Germany to work on their next album.

1998: The limited-edition Essential CD is released in the U.S. and Japan.

2007: The Pet Shop Boys arrive in Sydney for their first visit to Australia since 1994. Their first day there, they perform at Sydney's V Festival along with Beck, Gnarls Barkley, the reformed Pixies, and various other artists. Unfortunately, someone enters Neil's dressing room just before the show and steals his custom-made black long-tailed Dior coat, valued at more than £1,500, which he would otherwise have worn during their performance.

2011: In addition to completing their remix of the Hidden Cameras' 'Colour of a Man,' started the day before, they begin work on a brand new song, 'Night and the City.'

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Left to my own devices
I probably would
If I was left to my own devices
I possibly would
(I would if I could)
If I was left to my own devices
I probably would
If I was left to my own devices
I probably would